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A few months ago we told you about a Chinese Wii one-off called the Vii. This product steals not only Nintendo's design and control scheme, but also bites from its marketing and advertising model, as it's aimed at families, children, and elderly people.

Seeing the device in action in the Vii's Chinese television infomercial really hits home. The games look like sad rip-offs of Wii Sports titles, and the two misshapen-headed mascots are horrendously ugly. Scary even. Also, who is James?

There's one exception: I pointed out earlier that the Cooking Mama rip-off looked pretty good, and  now that I've seen the game in action, I have to say that it looks to have slightly better graphics than Cooking Mama. Weird.   

The disassembly by the Chinese engadget team has awaits after the jump. You'll be surprised to see innards of this console -- there's hardly anything in it!


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13 comments | showing # 1 to 13

B-Radicate's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 09:47
B-Radicate
Sadly I'd prolly play this more than I play my Wii.
Boolean's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 09:48
Boolean
God, how many times did it show that fucking table tennis game?
B-Radicate's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 09:48
B-Radicate
WTF? There is nothing in that!? Chinese ingenuity at its finest right there.
Scientist tz's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 09:57
Scientist tz
So I'm guessing it works like those "20 in 1" things that looks like an atari controller, hooks up to a video output in your TV and has 20 atari games loaded onto a cheap internal memory chip.
Barcode's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 10:22
Barcode
ROFL @ the inside of the Vii. It's sad for me to know I would probably buy that if it were cheap.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 10:41
king3vbo
EL OH EL
Professor Pew's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 10:49
Professor Pew
Spoiler: Vii contains lead and e-coli.
ToasT's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 11:28
ToasT
Since it is aimed at kids, they also included the date rape drug in the controlers.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 11:33
Necros
I still prefer the Wu.
Oni's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 12:09
Oni
@Professor Pew: If you're stupid enough to put the innards of the damn thing in your mouth you deserve to die.
Oni's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 12:10
Oni
Damn, that comment wasn't aimed at you, Prof Pew. Just people in general.
moot button's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 19:04
moot button
WOW! they got James' endorsement!! Must..get..Vii!!
Reallynotnick's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2007 21:17
Reallynotnick
Finally a Wii somebody can buy, plus it has more games! Too bad the shipping from china kills the deal...
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